About SNFP

The Johnson & Johnson School Nurse Fellowship Program is a unique opportunity for selected school systems to participate in a nationally established alcohol and drug education program.

Candidates from around the United States and other countries are selected to be Johnson & Johnson School Nurse Fellows. School systems invited to take part in the program send school nurses to a weeklong alcohol/drug studies school in July held at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

As a condition for accepting school nurses into the program, the school principal from the site where the school nurse spends most of her/his time must agree to attend two days of the weeklong program. This time is structured to increase school nurses' and their administrators' knowledge of adolescent health issues, the causes and correlates of adolescent risk behaviors, and best practices in alcohol and drug prevention and education.

The program is more than a one-week event. Alumni receive updates on alcohol, other drugs, and related topics throughout the year.